Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:29:59 +0000 By Aaron Chiyanzo and Mukosela Kasalwe THE UPND leadership did not instruct its Members of Parliament to boycott President Edgar Lungu’s national address in Parliament last Friday, but they opted to do so on their own through their parliamentary chief whip Garry Nkombo, UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka has said. Mr Katuka said that his ‘‘hands were clean’’ in the issue involving the case of the UPND MPs for the second time boycotting President Lungu’s State of the Nation address last Friday. He distanced himself from a letter which had been circulating on social media purporting that he had instructed the MPs to boycott the President’s address. Mr Katuka has called on the police to immediately institute investigations on the source of the fake letters which he said were forged. “We call on the Police Command to immediately institute investigations on the source of these fake letters […]
